Now for just a brief update...
The adoption side of things, well, it's just not going all that well. Any prospects we did have, we no longer have. Things seem to change so quickly- we just never know what is around the corner. We have been praying for years now to try and get some direction with all of this, but nothing ever appears to be 100% clear.
While we were on vacation for Christmas Melinda (Mark's sister) suggested we look outside of Arizona at costs of IVF, apparently she had a friend who went out of state and was able to get a much more reasonable price. Realistically, the costs of adoption and IVF are very close...but we were able to find out that the costs of adoption in California are MUCH less than Arizona. We also happened to know someone in our ward who just got pregnant through IVF with a local clinic. So we met with that clinic last week, and found out we can get a few rounds of IVF for about $17,000. Since there is no gaurantee that I would get pregnant on the first try, it would make sense to buy more of a package deal which would save us money in the end.
We still haven't made any for sure plans with the IVF...and we don't really have anything going on with the adoption....so there isn't much to update. We will have at least another year of saving before we have enough money for either.
I'm just looking forward to 2010, and praying for a miracle :o)
The adoption side of things, well, it's just not going all that well. Any prospects we did have, we no longer have. Things seem to change so quickly- we just never know what is around the corner. We have been praying for years now to try and get some direction with all of this, but nothing ever appears to be 100% clear.
While we were on vacation for Christmas Melinda (Mark's sister) suggested we look outside of Arizona at costs of IVF, apparently she had a friend who went out of state and was able to get a much more reasonable price. Realistically, the costs of adoption and IVF are very close...but we were able to find out that the costs of adoption in California are MUCH less than Arizona. We also happened to know someone in our ward who just got pregnant through IVF with a local clinic. So we met with that clinic last week, and found out we can get a few rounds of IVF for about $17,000. Since there is no gaurantee that I would get pregnant on the first try, it would make sense to buy more of a package deal which would save us money in the end.
We still haven't made any for sure plans with the IVF...and we don't really have anything going on with the adoption....so there isn't much to update. We will have at least another year of saving before we have enough money for either.
I'm just looking forward to 2010, and praying for a miracle :o)
